Warlike Swans wrote:Shadocon never even announced their winners on the internet last year. -_-

I submitted to a con this year that never announced finalists or winners last year. I agree that something should be done concerning the coordinators of contests that don't bother to let people know if they won or not, but at times I feel bad for the audience if very few quality videos are sent. I may send something, but I have no vested interest in winning at a con I've never heard of that most likely won't have a lot of big name editors submitting to it, so it doesn't bother me not to hear about the winners, so long as the audience has a good set of videos to watch ! That said, I don't send to every small convention, but when they post on the org and extend deadlines, I take that as a hint that they are in desperate need of entries so I try to send something.

Although the only video I have that hasn't hit my submission limit is Anten Piece, lulz! Sorry audience...

l33tmeatwad wrote:I submitted to a con this year that never announced finalists or winners last year. I agree that something should be done concerning the coordinators of contests that don't bother to let people know if they won or not, but at times I feel bad for the audience if very few quality videos are sent.

I think that is my one pet peeve out of the bunch that bugs me so much. EXP Con last year didn't announce winners or finalists. It was my first win ever and they never gave out a formal notice, sent out anything to the winners or contacted us in anyway. Shin was nice enough to post the youtube video someone had posted of the awards show. They had everyone riled up for the con this year and then with no other word since may canceled it. People showed up for the con and found out it wasn't there. Disorganized doesn't even begin to cut it I think...

SammySamaProductions wrote:trying to submit but under the mycons system it says that the deadline has passed and won't let me enter to upload...is there another way to do so?

To my knowledge, the deadline has been extended and you should be able to upload videos until 11:59 pm Friday evening. Please retry to upload the file and if you can't post here about it or better still contact Shadocon about it.

I posted here about the contest due to the fact that no one from the con bothered to promote the contest as it should have been months ago. I would be very grateful for ANY entries received before the deadline and will do my best to make sure winners are posted online.

As far as file formats are concerned, I've been informed by the developer that the system WILL accept most of preferred file formats that AMV creators are using presently with the known exception being MKV files. Shadocon needs to update their contest rules to reflect this fact. If you cannot upload MP4s or any file format (except MKV), please post here and I'll try to debug the problem.

We received three entires sometime during the day, so it has been working. If for some reason anyone couldn't upload before the deadline due to the site refusing to allow it, I'm not sure what the problem was. I will alert the developer about the issues and have him look into what the problem could have been. Apologies for the difficulties.